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Data Architect

Birmingham, Alabama

Job Category: Technology
Brand: Motion
Job ID: R23_0000018612
Status: Full time

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Employee Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, life and disability insurance, as well as campus health and wellness programs

  • Paid time off, eight company holidays and flexible work schedules available

  • Tuition Reimbursement and professional development opportunities

  • 401(k) Plan with competitive employer matching

  • Onsite cafeteria, coffee stations and break rooms

  • Employee discounts, including NAPA parts, entertainment, technology, appliances, event tickets and more

Job Description

Data Architect


The Data Architect will lead the architectural designs and standards of data solutions across Motion’s enterprise from ingestion to visualization. The position will coordinate with and guide engineering teams in matters of data movement, performance, and data management, as well as champion best practices among Motion’s internal stakeholders and world-wide partners. Motion offers an excellent benefits package that includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.

You must be eligible to work in the US without Visa Sponsorship

Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end oversight of the technical design of all data solutions and analytics, internal and external to Motion, and in alignment with business needs.
- Participate in or lead the requirements gathering from stakeholders.
- Advise on best tools and practices to apply in the areas of data ingestion, master data management, governance, data modeling (structured and unstructured), data warehousing and visualization.
- Stay current on emerging technologies relevant to data solutions and analytics.
- Work at a program level to coordinate across technical, stakeholder and vendor teams on delivery of solutions.
- Create and maintain the documentation of standards, patterns and guidelines related to data solutions and analytics.

Qualifications:
- 10+ years in data engineering at scale involving ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing and data management
- Proficiency with database and data warehouse designs, concepts, and practices
- Proficiency in SQL
- Proficiency in ETL tooling
- Experience in diagram tools
- Experience with data visualization tools
- Experience with an object-oriented programming language, such as Java, Python, C#, etc.
- Experience with cloud data architecture
- Exposure to AI/ML
- Understanding of software development principles in a service-oriented architecture environment
- A Bachelor's, or associates, Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience

Preferred:
- Experience with Google BigQuery
- Experience with Informatica
- Experience with Power BI
- Experience with Java and/or Python
- Experience with AI/ML

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